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Renewable Photocatalysts
Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2025
- Editors: Hui Xu, MD Shouquat Hossain, Laveet Kumar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 2 9 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 2 9 6 - 5
Renewable Photocatalysts: Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future offers an innovative and broad approach to photocatalysts, integr… Read more
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Request a sales quoteRenewable Photocatalysts: Technologies, Applications, Economics, Environmental Analysis, and a Sustainable Future offers an innovative and broad approach to photocatalysts, integrating design, materials, methods, applications, economics, and sustainable development. The book begins by introducing solar energy and catalysis, before delving into cutting-edge photocatalyst technologies and applications. The third section focuses on regulations, economics, and commercialization, before the final chapters provide further in-depth coverage of environmental considerations, life cycle, and applications. The lens of sustainable development is applied throughout the book, with a view to developing renewable photocatalysts that support the reduction of CO2 emissions, net zero goals, and sustainable development. This is a valuable resource for researchers, students, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, and policy makers, with an interest in solar energy, photocatalysts, and sustainable development.
- Presents advanced photocatalyst-driven technologies and innovative solar energy applications
- Targets the design of catalysts with high photocatalytic activity for emissions reductions
- Provides economic and environmental analysis of potential large-scale commercial applications
- Addresses regulations and sustainability of the development of renewable photocatalysts
Researchers, students, and faculty in the fields of solar energy, renewable energy, chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, and sustainable development
Part 1
1. Solar energy technologies and catalysis: Principles and applications
2. Hybrid solar-powered photocatalysis systems for hydrogen production, observation, and application
3. Solar photocatalytic, photoelectrochemical, and photovoltaic-electrochemical systems for hydrogen production: Advanced technologies, challenges, and opportunities
4. Advancement of Z and S-scheme heterostructure photocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution
Part 2
5. Utilization of renewable photocatalysis systems to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve zero energy (NZE) targets
6. Renewable photocatalysis-driven water-splitting applications
7. Renewable photocatalysis for hydrogen production and application
8. Future photocatalysis applications: Fuel cells, solar conversion, self-cleaning and self-sterilizing coatings, food and healthy treatments, drug delivery, cancer treatment, and environmental radiation
9. Photocatalysis pathways for conservation and storage of energy
10. Empowering photocatalysts with Artificial Intelligence: Innovations and applications
11. Photocatalysis pathways for wastewater treatment
Part 3
12. Renewable energy-based power generation, contribution to global policy, and benefits for future economic growth
13. Renewable photocatalytic technologies: Global policy barriers and economic implications
14. Total cost of renewable photocatalytic establishment for sustainable energy future
15. Global economic benefits of developing renewable photocatalytic energy
16. Global renewable photocatalytic energy market: Commercialization and future trends
17. Photocatalysis integrating economic, commercialization, and social assessment for the future energy market
Part 4
18. SWOT analysis of photocatalytic technology in the market towards environmental remediation
19. The environment for different types of catalysts materials used in photocatalysts
20. Life cycle assessment of photocatalyst materials
21. Environmental effect on the photocatalytic process and convenience of semiconductor materials
22. A new type of nanomaterial for environmental applications in the photocatalytic degradation of water pollutants
1. Solar energy technologies and catalysis: Principles and applications
2. Hybrid solar-powered photocatalysis systems for hydrogen production, observation, and application
3. Solar photocatalytic, photoelectrochemical, and photovoltaic-electrochemical systems for hydrogen production: Advanced technologies, challenges, and opportunities
4. Advancement of Z and S-scheme heterostructure photocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution
Part 2
5. Utilization of renewable photocatalysis systems to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve zero energy (NZE) targets
6. Renewable photocatalysis-driven water-splitting applications
7. Renewable photocatalysis for hydrogen production and application
8. Future photocatalysis applications: Fuel cells, solar conversion, self-cleaning and self-sterilizing coatings, food and healthy treatments, drug delivery, cancer treatment, and environmental radiation
9. Photocatalysis pathways for conservation and storage of energy
10. Empowering photocatalysts with Artificial Intelligence: Innovations and applications
11. Photocatalysis pathways for wastewater treatment
Part 3
12. Renewable energy-based power generation, contribution to global policy, and benefits for future economic growth
13. Renewable photocatalytic technologies: Global policy barriers and economic implications
14. Total cost of renewable photocatalytic establishment for sustainable energy future
15. Global economic benefits of developing renewable photocatalytic energy
16. Global renewable photocatalytic energy market: Commercialization and future trends
17. Photocatalysis integrating economic, commercialization, and social assessment for the future energy market
Part 4
18. SWOT analysis of photocatalytic technology in the market towards environmental remediation
19. The environment for different types of catalysts materials used in photocatalysts
20. Life cycle assessment of photocatalyst materials
21. Environmental effect on the photocatalytic process and convenience of semiconductor materials
22. A new type of nanomaterial for environmental applications in the photocatalytic degradation of water pollutants
- No. of pages: 500
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443292958
- eBook ISBN: 9780443292965
HX
Hui Xu
Hui Xu is a Professor at the Institute for Energy Research at Jiangsu University, in China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Jiangsu University in 2010. His research interests are in the development of nanomaterials and their composites for hydrogen evolution and energy conversion, with work mainly focused on photocatalytic and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) and CO2 reduction using various nanostructures. He currently serves as a member of the Energy and Environment Committee of the Chinese Energy Society. Prof. Xu has published over 200 research papers in international journals, with more than 17,000 citations. He was selected as a Clarivate Analytics Global Highly Cited Scientist from 2019 to 2021. In 2020, he won the Hou Debang Chemical Science and Technology Youth Award, and in 2021 he was selected as an Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar, and received the second prize in the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation Science and Technology Progress Award.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, ChinaMH
MD Shouquat Hossain
MD Shouquat Hossain is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Energy Research at Jiangsu University, in China. He received his Ph.D. degree at the UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2018, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the University of Malaya and at Peking University, China. Dr. Shouquat has 13 years of research experience and expertise in various renewable energy projects. His current research focuses on electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy with building applications, MPPT, solar PV efficiency, PVT, PCM, statistical modelling, economic analysis, micro-smart grids, solar PV efficiency, and real-time control and monitoring. He has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, ChinaLK
Laveet Kumar
Laveet Kumar is an Assistant Professor at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. degree at the UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2022. Dr. Laveet has 8 years of experience in research and expertise from various renewable energy projects. His current research focuses on thermal engineering, solar energy, energy security, energy policy, and climate change. He has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan